Oct. 01--CBS and Amazon will remain summer programming partners for three more years.
Under an agreement announced Thursday, the online retailer will continue to have the exclusive streaming rights to CBS' first-run scripted summer shows, making them available on its Prime Video service four days after their network broadcast.
The new deal will begin next summer with "BrainDead," the comic-thriller from "The Good Wife" cocreators Robert and Michelle King. The series starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead is set in Washington, D.C., where alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of congressmen and their staffers.
Amazon had the exclusive streaming rights to CBS' recent summer shows "Under the Dome" and "Extant." The arrangement helped the network cover the costs of the series, developed as an effort to put more first-run scripted programming on during the summer months.
This deal, which runs through 2018, also extends and expands Amazon's streaming rights for the program libraries of CBS and its premium cable network, Showtime. Amazon Prime members will be able to watch full seasons of such shows as "Medium," "The Tudors," "The L Word," the original "Twin Peaks" series, "America's Next Top Model," "I Love Lucy," "The Amazing Race" and "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch."
